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Although Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1935, the circumscribed world of the Polish Jews remained at the heart of his imagination. Beginning with his first major work, Satan in Goray (1935), he used the life of the shtetl as raw material, transforming its folkways, religious practices, superstitions, and sexual habits into superior works of art. From time to time, however, Singer turned his eye upon New World Jews like himself, recording their rapid or reluctant assimilation into the American mainstream. One such book is Shadows on the Hudson.
This massive novel originally was serialized in the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward in 1957. Now it has finally been translated into English--in a capable version by Joseph Sherman--and Singer fans should be very grateful. Center stage is occupied by Boris Makaver, a master builder equally devoted to I-beams and the Talmud, and Anna, his much-married daughter. Fanning out from this duo, however, is a small universe of refugees, all of them served up with Singer's customary brio. (Here's a comical snapshot of a shyster named Hertz Grein: "His nose had a Jewish hook, but then had second thoughts and straightened itself out. His lips were thin, and his blue eyes revealed a curious mixture of bashfulness, sharpness, and something else that was hard to define. Margolin used to say that he looked like a Yeshiva boy from Scandinavia.") As the subplots pile up in an unruly heap, the novel sometimes reveals its installment-plan origins. Still, Singer puts his large cast through some wonderful paces, and the endless talk--for these are characters who truly come alive through the medium of rapid, contentious, Yiddish-accented conversation--allows the author to speculate about destiny, identity, and freedom without slowing his story a whit. As Singer said more than once, "Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?"
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Serialized in the late 1950s, Shadows On The Hudson was translated from Yiddish and published posthumously as a complete novel in 1998, receiving widespread literary acclaim. From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, Shadows On The Hudson traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer has created a vibrant, resonant, and provocative cast of characters in search of answers to life's greatest dilemmas, challenges, and ironies.
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a brilliant novel but no fun to read.......2006-10-13
Had it been published in English when it was written, shortly after WWII, it would have been ignored as the story of a mere milieu. Today it is the story of Everyman. These Jewish refugees in New York after the Holocaust, relatively prosperous since the truly poor had no means of escaping Hitler, display all the Angst, ambivalence, rootlessness and indecision of modern mankind. They cannot decide between reason and faith, modernity and tradition, America and Europe. Their God is no comfort and his non-existence no release. All that is real is Hitler -- and Hitler stands for what the modern world has to offer.
This novel is exasperating because it is always easy to despise the despicable characters it develops, yet reflection after each portion read forces one to admit a sympathy, albeit reluctantly. Very Dostoyevskian to be sure. Dostoyevsky is no pleasure to read either.
Singer deservedly got the Nobel Prize for Literature years ago and before this masterpiece ever saw the light of day except in Yiddish in serialized form.
A modern epic novel..eternal ..humorous and testimonial.......2006-06-18
Having been in jesuit school during my primary and secondary, I distintly remember a priest who told me I should marry a jewish girl for you have the sort of character that requires it.. he was not mistaken, but the unfolding of that story rivals a novel of IBS... so my wife gave it as a girft and I found a novel in some parts as to be similar to Dovstoyeski, yet modern is some others as Saul Bellow's.. and even humorous as Woody Allen.
Its a story of survivors, of the melting-pot phenomenom of the USA, of the drift of generations and the loss of traditions, of the eternal contradictions, and the difference between a world separated by the holocaust.
Dark and Epic: Singer rewriting himself.......2006-01-19
For fans of Singer's writing, there is little new here. All of his classical narrative concerns are on display. But this novel, unpublished during his lifetime, is far more of an immense and deep exploration of his concerns; there is the feeling, when reading this sprawling novel, that he has found yet another angle to explore his fictional concerns, and it is one that is subterranean in its aesthetic. Shadows is staggeringly dark; its vision of humanity, both in the past, present and future, is unremittingly tragic and sorrowful. Singer never lets up, and reading this novel can be fatiguing because of its unrelenting stance toward despair. What saves the novel from perdition, what makes it more than a catalog of gloom, is that it is uttering extremely simple truths, even if they are hard to swallow.
Nowhere plans for nobody.......2004-08-17
"Shadows on the Hudson" is an excellent novel, even better than Singer's similiar but more compact "Enemies, a Love Story". Few writers have ever been able to involve the reader in the inner lives of fictional characters the way Singer could, and fewer still would have been able to make their stories so fascinating when they're all so cynical and often downtrodden, bemoaning God's silence and the corruption of modern man. Singer had a singular talent for exploring the chasm between expectations and reality, how we're almost always let down (and the post-WW2 Jews moreso than practically anyone in history), and how, for some totally inexplicable reason, we keep going. He made the absurd palpable for the modern reader, far better than even Camus and Sartre did, because he was an entertaining storyteller first, and THEN he was a philosopher.
This long, convoluted story of the lives of a half-dozen Jewish intellectuals and businesspeople in New York immediately after the second world war must be Singer's masterpiece. He often explored the same ideas in his novels---the point of existence and the role of the Jew in modern society---and in fact he often used philandering husbands and bitter wives and mistresses as primary characters, but he pulled it all together here into a riveting, beautiful story of obsession, regret, pain, and penitence that you simply don't want to end. That these people, and their endless torturous questions, aren't really important in the long run is precisely the final point of Singer's big novel: we make a tiny, swift ripple in the river and then we're gone, possibly forever; but it is how we grapple with the desires of the body and the needs of the mind and heart that gives our lives substance and form. Without this questioning and searching, without this rending of our spirit by apparently random or viscious events in our lives...without all of it, we would never turn to God. And then our small lives ARE meaningless.
At least, that's what I think Singer is trying to say. In the end, he was a fantastic writer who drew you into the story and kept you guessing until the end. Just like life itself...
A failure of imagination.......2004-07-14
This book was serialized in Yiddish in 1957 and 1958 in the pages of the socialist and extremely anti-Communist Jewish Daily Forward. Reading it reveals that it is no surprise that it took four decades for it to be translated into English. The book deals with a handful of New York Jews, almost all of them refuges from Nazism, in the immediate post-war period. Although most of them are in reasonably comfortable circumstances, they are almost all deeply traumatized by the Holocaust, some of which they survived, while others lost their loved ones. At the same time the characters worry about the equivalent tyranny of Stalin at the beginning of the Cold war (a point Singer constantly reiterates) and how some of their relatives are becoming (uniformly stupid) Communists themselves. Into this depressing situation comes the love affair between Anna Luria, daughter of the wealthy, devout businessman Boris Makaver, and Hertz Grein, a former scholar and now a successful stockbroker. Both of the couple are married, and Grein also has a hysterical mistress that he cannot get free of.
So far, so interesting. But I am afraid the book is a failure. I can understand why Singer would be deeply pessimistic about Judaism and the fate of the world. But the tone is one of hysteria, and however reasonable that might be as a response, it is not successful literature. The essential ideology portrayed is that only absolute devotion to the narrowest and most rigid Orthodoxy can save modern Jewry. The only alternatives presented are the aforementioned stupid Communists, and the most nihilistic sort of atheism. Over and over again various characters state that a Just God could not allow this sort of suffering to His people, and that it would be better if He did not exist at all. But then they usually conclude that atheism invariably leads to the nihilism of totalitarianism, and that therefore the most rigid Orthodoxy is the only solution. Now granted, these characters are not Singer himself. And there are signs that he undercuts his character's Orthodoxy. It will not escape the reader that as Anna's and Hertz's relationship collapses it is Hertz who bemoans and wails his lot. But it is actually Anna who goes out of her way to rescue her father from his own poor financial judgement even after he denounces her as a slut. Meanwhile Grein is horrified that his children are both marrying Gentiles, and disassociates himself from them. He shows no interest when his daughter-in-law thinks about converting to Judaism. "I don't accuse others, only myself," he claims, though in fact he has denounced his daughter as a whore for sleeping with her boyfriend. One might think that an adulterer, who repeatedly betrays the three women he is involved with, could care more for his own children. At another point Grein goes to a synagogue and he comments on how much more generous and kind the congregants are to him, in a way that Zionists and Communists wouldn't. Later, however, he complains that the congregation is as selfish and envious as everyone else. His idealization of the old Polish shetls is undercut by Dr. Margolin's reminder that he lost five siblings to infant mortality. As the book concludes Grein claims his loyalty to Orthodoxy is absolute, even though he doesn't really believe in Sinai, or much else.
So one could think that Grein is neurotic and a hypocrite. But the fact that his perspective, repeated by several other characters, is the one that is endlessly reiterated throughout the novel can help drown out one's reservations about his conduct. The only time Jews collectively show any dignity in the novel it is at religious functions or in the company of the Orthodox characters. Elsewhere, whether it is on vacation, or in business, or at political meetings, or in the world of show business the characters are shockingly crass. Another problem is the repetitive quality of the book, whether it is Grein's conversations about religion or his contacts with his mistress. The constant condemnations of pornography, of violent movies, of pro-female alimony laws are repeated without any real detail or nuance or illumination. Were it not for the criticism of Hitler and the occasional vegetarianism, much of it could have been repeated by Al-Qaedya. There is also an anti-feminism in the book, which only supports Grein's sexual bad faith ("a woman is not governed by reason but by emtions, instinct, fashion, or plain stubborness, against which rational arguments do not avail"). And portraying Grein as the slave of passion subtly blurs his responsibility for his sex life. Certainly the picture of America which emerges is extremely unflattering: assimilation at its worst. There is almost no attempt to deal with Gentiles. Not only is there the tactless reference to an Afrrican-American whose heart, says the book, is supposedly still in the jungle. But the characters immediately think the worst of the Germans they occasionally run into. Most of Singer's work tended to ignore Gentiles, but you cannot write a novel about the aftermath of the Holocaust which assumes that the vast majority of humanity consists only of shadows.
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Dreams and Shadows: Thomas H. Hotchkiss in Nineteenth-Century Italy
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Jung and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism: Collected Essays (Jung on the Hudson Book Series)
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An updated edition of a scholarly work that confronts a controversial subject.
In 1989, Jungian analysts gathered at a conference in New York and in workshops at the International Association for Analytical Psychology conference in Paris to address the rumors of C. G. Jung's anti-Semitism. The papers for these events were originally published as Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-Semitism. This revised and updated edition of that seminal publication examines both the historical merits of the rumors and the psychological implications of continued interest in this question. This work is a poignant and revealing look at how the Jungian community has reconciled the dichotomy of Jung-the-genius with Jung-the-person-living-in-the-society-of-his-time. Included are new material by Joan Dulles Buresch-Talley, Sanford L. Drob, J. Marvin Spiegelman, Jerome Bernstein, Jane Reid, Jay Sherry, plus an updated chronology and bibliographic essay. Other contributors in this anthology include: Geoffrey Cocks, Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, Werner Engel, Micha Neumann, Paul Roazen, Marga Speicher, and Ann Belford Ulanov.
While applying for a postdoctoral grant to study at the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, Aryeh Maidenbaum was unexpectedly confronted with rumors of Jung's anti-Semitism. Though he managed to swiftly rebut the accusations, he became increasingly uncomfortable with his ignorance on the topic. Today, Maidenbaum is known not only for his research and knowledge of the subject, but also for bringing the question to the forefront of the Jungian community.
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Title: Hudson Valley emerges from city's shadow.
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Title: Out of the shadows: African descendants--revolutionary combatants in the Hudson River Valley; a preliminary historical sketch.
Author: A.J. Williams-Myers
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Shadows on the Hudson.
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World Literature Today (Refereed)
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- whistful and disturbing
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Spring Broke
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Caligula would have understood the depraved decadence and desperate frenzy of spring break - American teens' annual pilgrimage to shimmering shores, where sex on the beach is as much an afternoon activity as it is a fruity cocktail. A festival of sun and sin, of tanned flesh and binge drinking, spring break attracts thousands of high school and college students, who wash up on Florida's shores like schools of breeding salmon, ready to indulge their insatiable apetites and hedonistic desires with total strangers. A native Floridian, photographer Nathaniel Welch has been documenting these rites of passage for four years - and has captured scenes of agony and ecstasy in Spring Broke, his first monograph. Whether it's partying at a kegger on the beach or engaging in group sex in the shower, entering a wet T-Shirt contest or passing out on the bathroom floor, these teens' uninhibited impulses are as absurd as they are disturbing. Yet Welch accepts, and even embraces, these raunchy rituals of extreme adolescence, alloing a strange sense of sadness to pervade. The morning after, broken spirits are left to reflect on their senseless acts, pack their bags, and head home.
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whistful and disturbing.......2005-03-11
Despite its title, this is not a "girls gone wild" in hardcover, but rather a series of thoughtful portraits about the desperate and sad reality behind the drunken revelry of spring break. Welch's photos are stark and honest without being lurid or judgmental. The book really captures the whole profane youth culture that is informed more by beer ads and porn films than anything else. Welch is a top-flight photographer and this book highlights his talents to a great degree.
"Higher" Education.......2004-11-15
Might be a usefull book if you are a parent trying to get your kid into re-hab, othewise... don't bother. Not worth the trouble, and a rather sad commentary on "higher" education.
Larry Clark + Where the Boys Are.......2004-08-07
What's happening to the youth of today? Well, number one, they're having a hell of a lot of fun and you can see the results in Nathaniel Welch's book SPRING BROKE.
One girl has a T shirt that says, "I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings." She looks a bit like the very young Cybill Shepherd, with Shepherd's cockeyed superiority, as though she were in on the joke, even if the joke was on her. Welch is a fine photographer and one wonders how he got releases from some of his subjects, especially the two boys and three girls he photographs making out in the shower. The girls are wearing thongs, I guess to preserve decency, but the one boy's just wearing a backwards baseball cap. When they're US Senators will they be trying to suppress these photos? Who can tell, in another twenty years spring break may be happening all year round and maybe even in the senate chamber.
The funniest photo may be the one of the tiny hotel refrigerator completely filled with alcohol, beer and mixers. You couldn't even fit in a radish if you wanted to.
Potentially an incendiary book, SPRING BROKE plays it cool and doesn't take sides. You have the feeling that Welch, who must be nearly forty by now, has a true love for these kids akin to Larry Clark's. Good work all around.
A Very Lame Book.......2004-06-02
This is a book of pictures of jocks and women who dig them, getting hammered.
"Yet Welch accepts, and even embraces, these raunchy rituals of extreme adolescence, alloing [sic] a strange sense of sadness to pervade. The morning after, broken spirits are left to reflect on their senseless acts, pack their bags, and head home.
...yeah, right. So why on earth would anyone want a book full of this? "Strange sense of sadness..." sounds like a fancy term for pathetic.
Don't waste your money on this book.
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- OUTSTANDING!!!
- Entertaining enough
- Thank you Jimmy!
- Disappointing
- A book for Buffett fanatics.
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A Salty Piece of Land
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If Tully Mars had known what he was getting himself into when he agreed to help find the lost lens belonging to the lighthouse on Cayo Loco-well, he might never have agreed to help in the first place. Then again, maybe he simply would have taken a slightly longer nap before setting off on his wild adventure. And it isn't just Tully-whom Buffett fans will remember well from Jimmy's bestselling Tales from Margaritaville-on the madcap quest. There's Ix-Nay, an Indian shaman with a dislike of the media; Mr. Twain, Tully's loyal steed; Cleopatra Highbourne, the 102-year-old owner of Cayo Loco and Cuban baseball addict; Captain Kirk, fishing trip leader and boatman extraordinaire; former country music star Sean Spurl, aka Tex Sex; Bucky Norman, a Wyoming cowboy who has found his way to the ocean; and even a fellow named Jimmy Buffett, who decides he might as well join in on the party. Raucous, wise, and familiar with the world's wonderful strangeness, A SALTY PIECE OF LAND is the perfect summertime confection.
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OUTSTANDING!!!.......2007-08-17
A SALTY PIECE OF LAND is an inspiring and moving escape to paradise. It was a beautiful story that brought tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat at the end. Unlike the disappointment I felt while reading WHERE IS JOE MERCHANT? I was enchanted by A SALTY PIECE OF LAND. I didn't want the book to end and was desperately trying to keep the wonderful feeling going. A SALTY PIECE OF LAND takes you to paradise and makes you never want to leave. I'll get there one day...
Entertaining enough.......2007-06-25
I like Jimmy Buffet's music pretty well, though I'm no Parrothead (but I like him enough to know that his fans are called Parrotheads...). I hoped this book would reflect the attitude and humor in his songs, and for the most part, it did.
To sum up briefly: we follow the adventures of one Tully Mars as he flees his former life as a cowboy when the ranch he works on changes hands and is turned into a poodle-breeding facility and spa. He throws a massage table through a window, which kind of seals his fate with his new boss. What follows is a wild journey to the tropics, with Tully just sort of riding along on a current of karma, kindness from strangers, and interconnectedness. He keeps running into people who are connected to other people he has run into before. He seems open to every opportunity offered him (deck hand on the ship he rode to the tropics on, guide on a new fishing-tour resort, lighthouse restorer), and this openness brings him fantastic experiences and not a little bit of trouble.
What I liked: the way Tully shows how connected we all are, the almost magical realism of some of the adventures, the wry humor, and the sly references to Buffet song lyrics.
What I wasn't so crazy about: some of the sermonizing. It seems every opportunity to get on a soapbox about the evils of European exploration and organized religion was taken. Not that I disagree or anything, but even to a sympathetic soul, it got a little old. Also, some of the situations, while I recognize that they were supposed to be abusrd, just seemed too over-the-top even for a fantasy novel.
Still, it was light reading and entertaining enough to finish the whole thing. If you like JB, you should probably like this book. It's ideal for summer reading (especially beach reading).
Thank you Jimmy!.......2007-02-19
After reading this book I wanted to write Jimmy Buffett a letter about my life, and let him know how much his book meant to me. A great book for anyone who loves to travel, sail, fish, and fly. It also touched on heavier topics such as love, death and how to deal with grief. I loved the metaphors on loss and ways to think and deal with it.
Thanks Jimmy, your book meant a lot to me.
JT
Disappointing.......2007-02-10
A rambling tale that fails to hold one's interest. It's seems highly improbable that our hero is on the run for throwing a piece of furniture through his employer's window.
And unfortunately, the "adventures" that follow evoke little excitement. The characterization is lighter than puff pastry, the humour forced and bland.
Stick to the music and pina coladas, Mr Buffet. Your place in the Hall of Fame is already assured!
A book for Buffett fanatics........2007-01-31
I received this book as a gift. It is the first book I have read that Jimmy Buffett wrote. I think this book is about dreaming and having fun and not much else, not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just not for me. I like substance and meaning in the books I typically read. If you are looking for a book that is fun and throws in elements of Jimmy's songs and you're not looking for anything else from a book then this is what you are looking for.
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Absolutely Marvelous.......2002-01-07
I am a Huge Janette Oke fan. Her books inspire me to live a faithful, Christian life...and this book just happens to be my favorite, if it's possible to have a favorite Oke book (they are all wonderful!) I encourage you to read this Saga!
A 13 YEAR OLD READER.......2001-07-31
I LOVE JANETTE OKE'S BOOKS.THIS SERIES IS MY FAVORITE OF ALL OF HER BOOKS.I READ THIS BOOK OVER AND OVER AGIN.I ESPECIALY LIKE THAT IT'S A CHRISTIAN BOOK. ALL OF HER BOOKS ARE GREAT BUT I THINK THIS ONE IS HER BEST.
This book is wonderful!.......1999-12-14
This book really brings to life what living in Northern Canada was about in the early 1900's. I found myself thinking what it would be like in Elizabeth's shoes. She endured such hardships just to be with the man she loved. What a great lovestory! It is excellent, just like all of Jeanette Oke's other books that I have read. I can't wait until it is printed again so I can have my own copy.
What a GREAT book!.......1999-11-04
I love ever Janette Oke book I've ever read, but this is a favorite! I hope everyone who reads this liked it as much as I did!
It deserves many more stars!.......1999-10-03
This is my favorite series from Oke. I wish it was longer. I never wanted the book to end. Oke is a wonderful author, and this is a must read book.
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The events of the past few months have left everyone changed. Seth has found the person he wants to be and he's grown confident about most things-except one, Summer. He can't forget her and so far she can't forgive him. Ryan has returned to Newport after learning that you can't force a family into existence, but he's also realized that he's got a family now-the Cohens. Now if he can just make things right with Marissa, he can focus on his new life. It's a period of change. Nothing is certain. Everything is up for grabs. Welcome to The O.C.An original story based on the hit TV show!
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Spring break O.C style.......2005-06-01
This book is about two young boys and two young girls that go on vacation over their spring break.
The two young boys that are in this book are named Ryan and Seth. These boys end going and spending their spring break with Seth's dad Sandy in New York. The main reason they decided to go to New York was because Seth didn't want to see Summer and Ryan didn't want to see Marissa. When the boys get to New York Sandy tells them that they get to do an internship for a week at the MTV studio.
The two girls decide that they want to go to Hawaii to visit Marissa's dad Jimmy. What the girls didn't expect was that Jimmy would be in other words a little distracted. When they get there Marissa sees that her father has a new life, he has a girlfriend who also has a son. This kind of throws Marissa off and she doesn't really know how to handle it at first so she gets really upset and mad at her dad and his "new" family. Jimmy seems to she that something is bothering her and they end up working it out because, Jimmy tells her that just because these other people are in his life that, that doesn't mean that it changes how he feels about her.
Overall this is a really good teen drama and I suggest that you check it out.
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Summer Smith is heading to the sun, surf, and excitement of Crab Claw Key for the most romantic vacation ever. After months of desperately missing her boyfriend, Seth Warner, she'll finally be in his arms again, soaking up the warm Florida rays...and Seth's hot kisses.
But when Summer saves the life of gorgeous, mysterious Austin Reed, she ends up with more heat than she can handle. Will it be the spring break of a lifetime -- or an unforgettable spring breakup?
One girl. Two guys.
One steamy spring break.
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Meghs Review.......2000-09-15
This book was really great read. You will love Summer Smith's character and all of her boy toys. Each guy has his own personality traits and your destined to fall in love with all of them. After you finish this first book, you'll be dying to read the next in the series!
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Meet The Silver Blades Skaters...
Nikki, Danielle, Tori, Jill, and Haley are five talented skaters who share one special dream -- competing in the Olympics someday. And they're going to try to make it all happen in Silver Blades, the best skating club around!
Spring Break
Jill is home from the Ice Academy, and everyone is treating her like a star. And she loves it! It's like a dream come true -- especially when she meets cute, fifteen-year-old Ryan McKensey. He's so much fun and cool -- and he happens to be her number one fan!
The only problem is that he doesn't understand what it takes to be a professional athlete. Jill doesn't want to ruin her chances with such a great guy. But will dating Ryan destroy her future as an Olympic skater?
Don't miss the next Silver Blades book, Center Ice!
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Not as good as some other books in the series........1999-06-24
I was looking forward to reading this book.Because Jill is my favorite character. In that respect I was not let down.There were plenty of Jill scenes. But I was a little dissapointed because there isnt much skatting in it. So one star down for that.
Book Description
Zoey and the gang have a week of fun-in-the-sun planned for Spring Break. They're headed to Logan's father's mansion on the coast. Things get weird when they realize that they're actually there to test a new reality show called "Gender Defenders". Its boys against the girls to see who gets to be on the REAL show! But when Chase accidentally sends a text message proclaiming his true feelings for Zoey, will this Spring Break prove to be a Spring Bummer?
Customer Reviews:
Spring Break.......2006-08-19
Very good. Could not put the book down. I will read more of Charlotte Douglas books.
fun Skerritt Florida cozy .......2006-03-05
In Pelican Bay, Florida, private investigator Maggie Skerritt and her beloved partner and fiancé Bill Malcolm hate two periods during the year; college breaks when the students flood the state especially since they are drafted by the cops as former police, to work party patrol. However, so far this spring break has been relatively quiet though there is the usual minor misbehavior. Maggie and Bill hope it remains that way.
Clearwater Police Detective Dave Adler informs his former partner at the now defunct Pelican bay PD Maggie about the recent murder of Deirdre Fisk. Maggie reflects back to sixteen years ago; Deirdre was the "lucky one" when as nine years old she survived abduction; the kidnapper who killed others was never caught. A cursory look takes Maggie and Bill while also on the trail of a dognapper back to that unsolved case from their police days that still haunt them. Neither are able to let go, Maggie and Bill begin digging into the connections not realizing as they get close to solving the two cases, someone wants to insure they fail even if that means killing the sleuths.
The latest Skerritt Florida cozy is a fun tale that fans of the series and the sub-genre will enjoy. As always, the state plays a key role in providing background; albeit this time with the annual spring break invasion serving that purpose. The murder mystery is cleverly devised to link past and present while the dognapping of Roger is an amusing aside though that pays the bills. Readers will appreciate Maggie's latest escapades as she tangles with a murderer, a dognapper, and the most dangerous adversary of all, her irate octogenarian mom.
Harriet Klausner
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The Scavenger Hunt (All Grown Up (8x8))
Erica Pass
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
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Binding: Paperback
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Book Description
It's boys versus girls in the Super S School's Out Scavenger Hunt, and everyone is psyched! The All Grown Up! gang has to find a list of things that can be described with the letter S, like something slimy, something stinky -- and even something secret! Who will be the first to get all the items? Find out in this funny and surprising story!
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